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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
These two Long Island 870's indeed displayed large, easy-to-read fonts on their roller curtains..... Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156580

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A quiet respite in Queens (1980).......

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
"I LOVE A PARADE"* (1981) Wink

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*Note, also, the windshield cards displayed by the two Fishbowls trailing the 870's......
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lefferts Blvd., 1982.......

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Queens Blvd., 1982......

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
STEINWAY.............

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
TRIBORO.......

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Old and new, side-by-side, in Jersey City, 1982 (Your's Truly knew both types of buses quite well, for quite a few years) Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
31st & 5th Avenue, 1982.......

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here's another view of the eye-catching #631, also seen in the previous post......

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
31st & 5th Avenue, 1982.......

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Actually, that was 32nd and 5th. The bus is headed eastbound towards Madison Avenue. 31st Street is westbound.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
.....I take it that #631 was the only 870 equipped with "batwings".

Were there ever plans to eventually install batwings on the other 870's, then in the fleet?

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Broadway/ENY, 1980...........

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lookin' good...... Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
'FACING THE FUTURE".......

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